Text 11] The Residents of Jambūdvipa Offer Prayers
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satisfaction of the tongue? Devotees should eat as simply as possible. Otherwise, attachment for material things will gradually increase, and the senses, being very strong, will soon require more and more material enjoyment. Then the real business of life—to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness—will stop.
TEXT 11
यत्सङ्गलब्धं निजवीर्यवैभवं 
    तीर्थं मुदुः संस्पृशतां हि मानसम् । 
    हरत्यजोऽन्तः श्रुतिभिर्गतोऽङ्गजं 
    को वै न सेवेत मुकुन्दविक्रमम् ॥११॥
yat-saṅga-labdham nija-vīrya-vaibhavam 
    tīrtham muhuḥ saṁspṛśatām hi mānasam 
    haraty ajo 'ntaḥ śrutibhir gato 'ṅgajam 
    ko vai na seveta mukunda-vikramam
yat —of whom (the devotees);  saṅga-labdham —achieved by the association;  nija-vīrya-vaibhavam —whose influence is uncommon;  tīrtham —holy places like the Ganges;  muhuḥ —repeatedly;  saṁspṛśatām —of those touching;  hi —certainly;  mānasam —the dirty things in the mind;  harati —vanquishes;  ajaḥ —the supreme unborn one;  antaḥ —in the core of the heart;  śrutibhiḥ —by the ears;  gataḥ —entered;  aṅga-jam —dirty things or infections of the body;  kaḥ —who;  vai —indeed;  na —not;  seveta —would serve;  mukunda-vikramam —the glorious activities of Mukunda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful activities and soon come to understand them. The activities of Mukunda are so potent that simply by hearing of them one immediately associates with the Lord. For a person who constantly and very eagerly hears narrations of the Lord's powerful activities, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead in the